Currently call_bind_status places a hard limit of 3 to the number of
retries on EACCES error. This limit was done to prevent NLM unlock
requests from being hang forever when the server keeps returning garbage.
However this change causes problem for cases when NLM service takes
longer than 9 seconds to register with the port mapper after a restart.
This patch removes this hard coded limit and let the RPC handles
the retry based on the standard hard/soft task semantics.
Fixes: 0b760113a3a1 ("NLM: Don't hang forever on NLM unlock requests")
Reported-by: Helen Chao <helen.chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Helen Chao <helen.chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h | 3 +--
net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 3 ---
net/sunrpc/sched.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
index b8ca3ecaf8d7..8ada7dc802d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ struct rpc_task {
#endif
unsigned char tk_priority : 2,/* Task priority */
tk_garb_retry : 2,
- tk_cred_retry : 2,
- tk_rebind_retry : 2;
+ tk_cred_retry : 2;
};
typedef void (*rpc_action)(struct rpc_task *);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 0b0b9f1eed46..63b438d8564b 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -2050,9 +2050,6 @@ call_bind_status(struct rpc_task *task)
status = -EOPNOTSUPP;
break;
}
- if (task->tk_rebind_retry == 0)
- break;
- task->tk_rebind_retry--;
rpc_delay(task, 3*HZ);
goto retry_timeout;
case -ENOBUFS:
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index be587a308e05..c8321de341ee 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -817,7 +817,6 @@ rpc_init_task_statistics(struct rpc_task *task)
/* Initialize retry counters */
task->tk_garb_retry = 2;
task->tk_cred_retry = 2;
- task->tk_rebind_retry = 2;
/* starting timestamp */
task->tk_start = ktime_get();
--
2.9.5
